News w/ @jdawsey1:
Trump told @SpeakerRyan this week to put the kibosh on federal funding for the crucial NY/NJ Gateway tunnel project. Sets up potential showdown on spending bill this month. https://t.co/wn1ytDCmvQ
24 hours after the deputy mayor of Chris Christie's town posts an extended immigrants-as-racoons metaphor on Facebook, residents pack council chambers & he resigns effective immediately...and his fellow GOPers apparently did not give him a warm, Trumpian Rob Porter farewell. https://t.co/qpxakp5tWI
"Perhaps most important of all, @GovMurphy has promised to treat educators with respect and dignity, even in the face of inevitable disagreement, and has already shown what that looks like in practice." More from the Final Exam of the #NJEAReview: https://t.co/lQTHGpzmQo #njed
PLEASE RETWEET if you agree that, after releasing a deliberately misleading memo over the objections of the DOJ/FBI, Devin Nunes must be removed from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. (He was *supposed* to be recused from the Russia probe when he did *this*.)
President of the @MCCEA, Laurie Schorno, addressed the #WomensMarchNJ with a quote by Mother Theresa: “None of us alone can change the world, but each of us can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” #UnionStrong
North Carolina Republicans, incl. @SenThomTillis & @SenatorBurr, tried to avoid tariffs on solar panels. 4,700 North Carolina jobs could be at stake after Trump opted for tariff. Background from @johnmurawski https://t.co/DVhTBcxHvX
Torn between an instinct to make a deal and the demands of his advisers, "the president was either unwilling or unable to articulate the immigration policy he wanted, much less understand the nuances of what it would involve." @maggieNYT@juliehdavis https://t.co/Lgd8680EFJ
New Jersey will stand up against Washington to protect the health care of our people! Today, at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack, I signed an executive order to promote and ensure Affordable Care Act enrollment.